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Arthur E. Lilley, professor of Astronomy and member of the planning committee, said that the proposed telescope fills a need the U.S. has for a large "dish" of the size maintained by England and Australia...
...Antenna Orchard. A receiver capable of picking up such distant signals is already within the technological capability of man, Oliver believes. He proposes an array of 10,000 dish antennas, each 100 ft. in diameter. With such an enormously sensitive radio telescope, he says, astronomers would be able to pinpoint the faintest radio signals coming down from space...
Literacy is not every man's dish. A teacher trying to persuade Arab men in North Africa to let their wives learn to read so that they can write letters was pointedly asked by one husband...
After that debacle, cranberry growers decided that they needed a broader base for their industry, began to push the berries as a year-round dish. Two years ago they hired as Ocean Spray's general manager Edward Gelsthorpe, a sharp product executive with Colgate-Palmolive and a summertime sailor who was attracted by the idea of living year-round on Cape Cod. Gelsthorpe was also attracted by Ocean Spray's possibilities. "It took only superficial analysis," he says, "to realize how little had been done with cranberries...
...assembled population. I held up the start for 15 minutes insisting that the women come too, but in the end only a dozen showed up. Afterwards I made the tour of the village with the local sanitation committee, a collection of ragamuffin types. Tonight I did my dish-washing act before a small group of women. Afterwards they asked questions about household work, and the caring for kids. I didn't know the answers but I faked...